National Insulation Manufacturers Association Winter Meeting Minutes (1960)

Minutes of the National Insulation Manufacturers Association's winter meeting at the Biltmore Hotel in New York on January 13, 1960, with the reports of its Technical and Research Committee and of the Rock and Slag Section attached (12 pages). Representatives of 17 insulation makers attended, among them five men from Johns-Manville Sales Corporation (including J. B. Jobe), along with Eagle-Picher, Keasbey & Mattison, Owens-Corning Fiberglas, Pittsburgh Corning, Union Asbestos & Rubber and others, plus the association's legal and publicity counsel. The business recorded is commercial and technical: product specifications, insulation thickness standards, and a publicity campaign to make the association "the authoritative spokesman for the insulation industry."

In Johns-Manville's chronology

Johns-Manville's own chronology of what the company knew describes this document as follows:

Burt Jobe recommended a safety program for insulation industry at NIMA meeting held on 1/13/60.

Editor's note: J-M's description says Burt Jobe recommended a safety program for the insulation industry at this meeting. The twelve pages of minutes in this file do not record that; they cover product specifications, insulation standards and publicity, and the remarks of counsel on page 7 are cut off on this copy.